Systems Engineer Jobs in London

System Engineer
England > London

The median System Engineer salary in London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 408 558
Rank change year-on-year +104 +150 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 213 231 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.66% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.69% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 162 132 208
10th Percentile £38,000 £40,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -0.83%
75th Percentile £67,500 £110,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £165,000 £83,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,181 33,417 64,405
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,675 24,567 34,955
10th Percentile £38,084 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in London

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in London

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in London

Systems Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London +4 8 £61,750 +105.83% 8
West London -12 8 £51,250 -5.09% 4
Central London +38 7 £52,500 -22.22% 7
North London +4 3 £51,750 - 7
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Systems Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (40.85%) Windows
2 51 (23.94%) Linux
3 50 (23.47%) VMware
4 47 (22.07%) Active Directory
5 41 (19.25%) Firewall
6 39 (18.31%) Azure
7 38 (17.84%) Degree
8 35 (16.43%) Windows Server
9 34 (15.96%) Finance
10 33 (15.49%) Microsoft
10 33 (15.49%) Social Skills
11 32 (15.02%) PowerShell
12 31 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (13.62%) Task Automation
14 26 (12.21%) Systems Engineering
15 25 (11.74%) Mentoring
15 25 (11.74%) JIRA
16 24 (11.27%) Security Cleared
16 24 (11.27%) Bash
16 24 (11.27%) VMware ESXi
17 22 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
17 22 (10.33%) DNS
17 22 (10.33%) MySQL
18 20 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
18 20 (9.39%) Python
18 20 (9.39%) Mac OS
18 20 (9.39%) Palo Alto
19 19 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
19 19 (8.92%) Fintech
19 19 (8.92%) CI/CD

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (8.92%) Confluence
2 18 (8.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (5.63%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.76%) IIS
5 3 (1.41%) Apache
6 2 (0.94%) nginx
6 2 (0.94%) WinCC
6 2 (0.94%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.88%) AutoCAD
2 4 (1.88%) Revit
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (18.31%) Azure
2 17 (7.98%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (7.51%) AWS
4 5 (2.35%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.35%) GitHub
4 5 (2.35%) IaaS
5 4 (1.88%) PaaS
6 2 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (0.94%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.94%) Google Docs
6 2 (0.94%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.94%) SaaS
6 2 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.25%) Firewall
2 22 (10.33%) DNS
3 17 (7.98%) PBX
4 13 (6.10%) DHCP
5 10 (4.69%) Network Security
5 10 (4.69%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.29%) Wireless
7 5 (2.35%) VLAN
7 5 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.88%) SAN
9 3 (1.41%) VPN
10 2 (0.94%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.94%) Internet
10 2 (0.94%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.94%) NAS
10 2 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.94%) RS-232
10 2 (0.94%) SMTP
10 2 (0.94%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.33%) MySQL
2 20 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.88%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.94%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.94%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (11.74%) JIRA
2 17 (7.98%) Bitbucket
3 16 (7.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.88%) Git
5 2 (0.94%) git-flow
5 2 (0.94%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.94%) Subversion
General
1 34 (15.96%) Finance
2 33 (15.49%) Social Skills
3 19 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.57%) Law
4 14 (6.57%) Legal
5 10 (4.69%) Aerospace
6 7 (3.29%) Military
6 7 (3.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.82%) Marketing
8 4 (1.88%) Advertising
8 4 (1.88%) Banking
9 3 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Electronics
11 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.88%) LAMP
2 3 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.94%) .NET
3 2 (0.94%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.47%) CSS
4 1 (0.47%) Keras
4 1 (0.47%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.47%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.47%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.57%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.63%) Replication
3 9 (4.23%) SCADA
4 8 (3.76%) AS400
4 8 (3.76%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.82%) IoT
6 5 (2.35%) CCTV
6 5 (2.35%) PDA
7 4 (1.88%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.41%) Clustering
8 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.94%) CAN bus
9 2 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.94%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.47%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 87 (40.85%) Windows
2 51 (23.94%) Linux
3 35 (16.43%) Windows Server
4 20 (9.39%) Mac OS
5 9 (4.23%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.35%) Unix
7 3 (1.41%) Android
7 3 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.94%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.94%) VMS
9 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.47%) Debian
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Solaris
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (13.62%) Task Automation
3 26 (12.21%) Systems Engineering
4 25 (11.74%) Mentoring
5 19 (8.92%) CI/CD
5 19 (8.92%) Fintech
6 16 (7.51%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (7.51%) Project Management
7 14 (6.57%) Computer Science
8 13 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (5.63%) High Availability
10 11 (5.16%) Service Management
11 10 (4.69%) ITIL
12 9 (4.23%) IT Strategy
12 9 (4.23%) ITSM
12 9 (4.23%) Low Latency
12 9 (4.23%) Mathematics
12 9 (4.23%) Software Engineering
13 8 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (3.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.02%) PowerShell
2 24 (11.27%) Bash
3 20 (9.39%) Python
4 19 (8.92%) SQL
5 7 (3.29%) C#
6 6 (2.82%) RPG
7 3 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.41%) PHP
8 2 (0.94%) C++
8 2 (0.94%) Go
8 2 (0.94%) Java
8 2 (0.94%) Perl
8 2 (0.94%) Ruby
8 2 (0.94%) Scala
8 2 (0.94%) VB
9 1 (0.47%) Korn
9 1 (0.47%) Rust
9 1 (0.47%) tcsh
9 1 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (17.84%) Degree
2 24 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.92%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (8.45%) CCNA
5 7 (3.29%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.35%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.88%) HNC
8 4 (1.88%) HND
8 4 (1.88%) RIBA
9 3 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.47%) CCNP
11 1 (0.47%) CEH
11 1 (0.47%) CISM
11 1 (0.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.47%) MCSA
11 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
1 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.47%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.47%) IEC 61508
2 1 (0.47%) NCSC
2 1 (0.47%) NIST
System Software
1 47 (22.07%) Active Directory
2 24 (11.27%) VMware ESXi
3 22 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (6.10%) Hyper-V
5 10 (4.69%) Firmware
6 6 (2.82%) Forefront TMG
6 6 (2.82%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (1.88%) vSphere
8 3 (1.41%) Docker
9 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.47%) NFS
10 1 (0.47%) vCloud
10 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (6.10%) SCOM
3 11 (5.16%) SCCM
4 10 (4.69%) Terraform
5 6 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.82%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.82%) WSUS
6 5 (2.35%) Ansible
7 3 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.41%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.94%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.94%) Grafana
8 2 (0.94%) Wonderware InTouch
9 1 (0.47%) Nagios
9 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.47%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.47%) systemd
Vendors
1 50 (23.47%) VMware
2 33 (15.49%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.39%) Palo Alto
4 18 (8.45%) Atlassian
5 17 (7.98%) NetApp
6 14 (6.57%) Cisco
7 9 (4.23%) Dell
7 9 (4.23%) Veeam
8 8 (3.76%) IBM
9 7 (3.29%) Apple
10 6 (2.82%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.35%) Remedy
12 4 (1.88%) Citrix
12 4 (1.88%) New Relic
12 4 (1.88%) Oracle
13 3 (1.41%) Bloomberg
13 3 (1.41%) Murex
13 3 (1.41%) PagerDuty
13 3 (1.41%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.41%) Tradeweb